Overview

Are you passionate about large scale distributed systems? Do you find scalability challenges associated with serving millions of requests per second an interesting problem? In Microsoft Bing Ads, we are looking for strong engineers to help scale and tune our ad serving platforms, to be able to serve more traffic and improve Ad serving efficiency.

Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today. Search engines, web publishers, major ad networks, and ad exchanges are now serving billions of ad impressions per day and generating terabytes of user events data every day. The rapid growth of online advertising has created enormous opportunities as well as technical challenges that demand computationally intelligence and scalable algorithms. Even more, there is a huge emphasis on user privacy when it comes to targeted ads. Our team is building a real-time ad-serving platform that focuses on delivering more relevant ads while protecting user privacy.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II who has shipped products or worked on large scale online services and has relevant software development experience. This is a rare opportunity to influence technology development in an important growth area at Microsoft. You will design, implement, analyze, and tune complex algorithms operating on large datasets in collaboration with top scientists and engineers across Microsoft’s global R&D team.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Produce extensible and maintainable designs and code.
Optimize, debug, and refactor code to improve performance and maintainability, and effectiveness.
Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
Apply debugging tools and examine logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products.
Review code to assure it meets quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area.
Provide mentorship for other engineers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Experience with efficient data structures, algorithms, asynchronous programming, and high-performance data processing.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Prior experience with C++.
Demonstrated experience working on low latency systems.
Familiar with information retrieval or ads systems.
Prior experience with open-source contributions.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.